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Briefs: Materials
The electrospun nanofibers are used for wound healing and 3D matrices for biological tissues.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
These carbon-based fillers can be used in thermally conductive clothing such as liquid-cooled garments.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This imaging technique could impact optical communications and signal processing.
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Facility Focus: Defense
The Army Test and Evaluation Command provides essential information to acquisition decision-makers and commanders.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains on materials under high pressures.
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Briefs: Materials
Production Method for High-Performance Polymer
A new composite nanoparticle catalyst produces a polymer to make body armor and other high-performance fabrics.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.
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Briefs: Nanotechnology
This technology could impact new directions in robotics design.
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Briefs: Materials
This process turns carbon dioxide into carbon nanotubes with small diameters.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Such machines, only a few tens of micrometers across, could be used in the human body to perform small operations.
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Blog: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
A fun way to show the robustness of a soft robot? Swat it.
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Application Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
AM is an especially good fit for products that require a high level of customization.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A nanoantenna-enabled detector boosts the usable signal of a thermal infrared camera by up to three times.
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Briefs: Electronics & Computers
A carbon nanotube heat shield can better protect extremely fast aircraft.
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
This microbot can walk on land, swim, and walk underwater.
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The device can be used to pre-screen for the virus using gene-editing assays before those infected can travel and expose others.
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Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
Ultra-thin SiC microstructures enable batch fabrication of MEMS, NEMS, pressure sensors, and biosensors.
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Briefs: Green Design & Manufacturing
This plant-based material can be manufactured using water as a solvent instead of other harmful solvents.
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Briefs: Transportation
Load-bearing structures in cars and airplanes could be manufactured from the metal foam.
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Briefs: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
This microrobot with soft actuators can crash, fall, and collide without being damaged.
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Briefs: Communications
Loosely connected disc-shaped “particles” can push and pull one another, moving together to transport objects.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This technology is a novel, rugged, and economic diagnostic and sensor platform technology.
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INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
The challenge of building an energy future that preserves and improves the planet is a massive undertaking. Scientists and politicians have recognized the...
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
A highly sensitive rectifying element in the form of a nanowire backward diode can convert low-power 100 nanowatt microwaves into usable electricity. The newly developed...
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Rutgers engineers have embedded high performance electrical circuits inside 3D-printed plastics, which could lead to smaller and versatile drones and better-performing small...
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INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and...
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Facility Focus: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Glenn's research facilities have contributed to decades of technology advances.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
This optical switch controls the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently.
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Briefs: Power
The nanogenerator also acts as a weather station.
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